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Through love, through friendship, a heart lives more than one life.
Anais Nin
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Anais Nin
Age: 73 †
Born: 1903
Born: February 21
Died: 1977
Died: January 14
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Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell
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Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.
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Death from disillusion is not instantaneous, and there are no mercy killers for the disillusioned.
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we ... believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
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The dangerous time when mechanical voices, radios, telephones, take the place of human intimacies, and the concept of being in touch with millions brings a greater and greater poverty in intimacy and human vision.
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I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals.
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I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.
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Our love lives because I live.
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Each friend represents a world in us.
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
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This great handsomeness I took into myself later when he desired me, but I took it as one breathes air, or swallows a snowflake, or yields to the sun.
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It is a sign of great inner insecurity to be hostile to the unfamiliar.
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Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.
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I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated
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Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape, one way or another. No more walls.
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One may gain one truth at the expense of another.
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The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.
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It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.
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There are only two kinds of freedom in the world the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.
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We write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection.
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